National Poetry Day: writers and readers share their favourite poems

Jo Bell, Michael Pedersen, Andrew McMillan and more tell us what poetry they are partial to

Today (Thu 8 Oct) is National Poetry Day, which means that we at The List have spent most of the morning trying to figure out what rhymes with Nantucket, and debating how to transform today's listings into shimmering sonnets. However:

That is hard to do
So instead we turn to you;
We ask in haiku

For your best all time
Poems and verses and rhymes
Or hey, just a line

Now, we wouldn't ask anything of you that we wouldn't do ourselves, so we've picked our staff favourites too.